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Original – The pirate Blackbeard's severed head, swinging from the bowsprit of the pirate hunter Robert Maynard's sloop after Blackbeard was captured and killed.
Reason
High resolution, assumingly one of the few surviving illustrations of this particular historic event.
Articles in which this image appears
Blackbeard
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator
Not certain, possibly Charles Ellms
  • Perhaps, but, as a picture from years after the event, the EV of this isn't quite the same. Combine this with the fact that it's pretty unremarkable as artwork and you have a rather underwhelming nom. J Milburn (talk) 16:29, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 14:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]